Sheep worrying, called someone out on social media. I'm sure I wasn't BU but usually don't get involved.

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So someone I'm 'friends' with on FB put an 'amused' comment today about her dog disappearing today, then reappearing about 10 minutes later chasing a pack of sheep....and wishing she'd videoed it...

12 people were amused by it...

I rarely make comments on FB but couldn't stop myself commenting that the sheep could have aborted and the dog been shot and that really wasn't funny....all very politely....

I know I'm not BU but I'm astounded folk thought this was in any way amusing or acceptable.

Seriously, was I BU? Was I?

My MIL tells the story of how they painstakingly raised quintuplet lambs from the brink of oblivion at birth, during an already busy lambing season, to healthy gambolling lambs, only for an escaped dog to tear all five of them (plus other lambs on the flock) to pieces in the field one day.

I’m veggie, and am fully aware of what was going to happen to them anyway, but this story really affects me for its brutality to the lambs, and to the family as farmers with a small flock.

YANBU. I can’t believe anyone would find it funny.

She sounds a shitty person and a shitty dog owner. Who lets their dog off lead if they’re liable to disappear?! Especially when you’re in close proximity to livestock.

My dog is part collie and while she has near impeccable recall I’d not dare ever let her off lead if I knew there were livestock within a mile.

She wants to be very careful. If it were a field of cows there’s a good chance she’d be attacked.

YANBU!! I live in a fairly rural area and have seen the devastation these acts of stupidity cause!

She wants to be careful as farmers will shoot dogs bothering their livestock!!!

Blue I think that is the problem...we have all seen the Fenton/Benton clip on youtube and supposedly think it's 'hilarious' when things like this happen but farmers shoot dogs for this as it can be so damaging.

Lambing is in full swing around us. God know how much dmage she has caused. You should tag the local police on her post.

It's the dog owner's responsibility to keep the dog away, not the farmer's responsibility to make an impenetrable fence.
YWNBU at all.
Are you going to unfriend? I wouldn't want to see any more of her tripe.

^^This. If the police turned up at her door or the irate farmer, to give her a ticking off, she might think twice about such idiocy in the future. She's a twat!

I'm more familiar with the rearing and breeding of calves tbh, and my spaniels have impeccable recall. They are still on lead when we have contact.

It's a fair and honest answer and response to my post though blue, we do live rurally though, she's no real 'excuse' for not knowing.

What a total arse. Only recently I saw a post where a sheep was mourning her dead babies she prematurely gave birth to after being chased by a dog. It was heartbreaking.

I hate dog owners like this.

Anyone who lives anyway rurally (I’m rural townie) fucking knows about dogs and sheep worring.

We had to give away our dog when he kept escaping and chasing sheep. He was lucky he wasn’t shot. An Aunt who lived in a nearby city took him, he was happy, we still saw him and he and sheep were safe.

We were lucky we had that option cause it was either that or be put down ( he was a Houdini at escaping) mum still has figured out how he did it

Hell no! Not that there is a good time but especially now did and sheep do not mix.

They would have been the first with posts of rage if the dog was shot.

Still hasn’t

She won't think it's so funny if the sheep do abort and someone tells the farmer there's a local woman boasting on FB about it

I dont know about where in the world you live but where I am in Scotland, they have adverts on the radio reminding everyone (townie and rural) about worrying live stock and the consequences.

Definitely NU at all.

Hopefully someone who knows her and where she lives outs two and two together and reports her.

I do bet though that she deletes the post. Have a look later and see if it's still there.

Tell her dog will be shot! Shes vvvv stupid. Her stupid dog ownership could kill lambs. What a stupid friend you have. Dont see how that is at all funny. I did see a doc once where the farmer came to a persons house, could prove the dog was a worrier and with the policeman next to him removed the dog and shot it.

I put people in their place too op. The other day, on FB a farmer posted on our local selling site that his sheep were now out on some particular local hills. One fucking woman in the midst of all the thankyou's said 'thanks, though I don't need to worry as my dogs were good as they themselves had a few sheep so the dogs are used to them'. I had to point out to her that a large flock of pregnant ewes that aren't used to certain dogs will be scared, it's nothing to do with the dogs behaviour.
She told me to fuck off. The farmer told her to keep her dogs in the lead st all times. She shut up then

Op...tell her if the farmer finds out her dog will be shot!

We’re calving right now and if we saw a dog chasing the new calves- out come the guns. Thankfully we don’t have dogs walkers or stray dogs here and besides our cows would sort a dog out really quick.

Poor sheep though.

I feel at pains to point out I'm a Facebook 'friend' due to a mutual interest a couple of years ago, nothing more

We are in North Yorkshire, rural enough I guess for most folk to know better, or so I did think, like I said previously, the amused faces perplexed me as my initial reaction was WTAF.....

Anyone who takes their dog into the countryside for any reason should have a good knowledge of the Countryside Code.

Being a townie really is no excuse whatsoever.

That poor farmer will undoubtedly have lost lambs and possibly a few ewes as well sheep are the most ridiculous animals and live through the power of prayer

YADNU

Link to the Countryside Code just in case anyone wants a read.

This sickens me, you did exactly the right thing. We keep sheep and are dog lovers. My husband will shot to kill, without a moments hesitation, if a dog was caught with our ladies. In our experience, they'll be back time and time again for a good jolly. Where as we are left to pick up parts of our dear sheep. At least the dogs would have an instant death, unlike the sheep.
Any dog is capable, any size, any breed. If only people would keep their damn dogs on a lead in the Countryside. It's a workplace.

This is probably going to sound very stupid, especially considering I grew up in the countryside, but do pregnant sheep not get rounded up by sheep dogs if it can cause miscarriages? Or is a sheep dog rounding up sheep entirely different to being chased by a regular dog?